Telltale’s ‘The Walking Dead Season 2’: What We Know

Telltale’s The Walking Dead, based more on the comics than the show, was an enormous hit, selling millions of copies and establishing Telltale as a developer to watch. That’s a hell of an act to follow, but Telltale might be pulling it off. Here’s what we know.

There’s A Trailer, But It Doesn’t Tell You Much

Just for the record, here’s the trailer that debuted yesterday:

The Game Focuses On Clementine

Your protagonist for this game will be Clementine, the little girl Lee Everett saved and protected in the first game. As it picks up immediately after the first season, it’s pretty safe to assume Clementine is not in the best of places, in terms of health and safety.

Your Decisions In Season One Will Carry Over

Any decisions you made in Season One, and to a lesser extent 400 Days, will be applied in Season Two. Which means that, yes, if you want to play through absolutely every possibility, you’ll probably need to go through season one again. Or you can just wait for the obsessive who will do that to start posting YouTube videos.

You Can Only Preorder For PC And Mac

Sorry, console gamers, the preorder is only for PC and Mac, but at least you can choose to use Steam or buy from Telltale directly; you save a few bucks by preordering, and going through Telltale will net you an exclusive DVD.

But It’ll Be Available On Lots Of Platforms

Telltale has confirmed Season Two will be on the PS3, Vita, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, and iOS. It says it may release the game on other platforms.

It’ll Start Before Christmas

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” like the consumption of flesh by the undead. Episodes will follow four to six weeks until the five-episode season is wrapped up. So we’ll be waiting with bated breath until 2014 to see where poor Clem ultimately winds up.

funny, I was just reading about this on another site.
S1 of this game made me feel very conflicted. the game itself was obviously amazing (and yes I cried at the end of E5 as well) but the way Telltale handled the initial rollout of the game really pissed me off. I’m still very much looking forward to S2. i’m glad the first episode is definitely coming out before Christmas – I hate when they say “coming soon” but give NO details!

…which is what initially pissed me off about the rollout of the game. when they first dropped S1 they said “buy the season pass! the episodes will be monthly!”
then they dropped the game… and they started coming out every 2 months.. .every 3 months. such a shitshow.

This is my most anticipated game of the year. If we’re really playing as Clementine, I expect the terror-factor to be upped by about a thousand percent. At least Lee was mostly able bodied and physically capable. On the plus side, now I can make the decision about what child-sized opening to heedlessly crawl through.

Yeah, the choices weren’t as far reaching as they made it out to be. They mostly just made you decide who lived and died between two characters a few times. I’m curious to see how Clementine heeds Lee’s advice/behavior in Season 2.

I’m bummed because I played season 1 on my PS3 but I’m going to be boxing up my PS3 when the PS4 comes out. Initially, they were saying it would be on PS4 and they were working on ways to transfer your PS3 save files to PS4 to play the new season. Now they’re saying they “have no plans” to release season 2 on PS4 (though I imagine it’ll come at some point). I could replay season 1 and 400 Days on my PC but I’d really like to just keep the story going that I already completed.

It was the first decision game I’ve played that put a time limit on making you decide. That’s the part I liked the most after coming from Biowre games where you could sit and stare at a response tree for hours if you wanted to.

Considering how much I liked the first season and how completely perfect The Wolf Among Us has been so far, I am totally in the bag for Season 2. But no console nonsense this time, definitely getting it on Steam.